Famous Quotes & Sayings

Halston Sage

I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

Howard Carter

Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.

Howard Carter

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

Howard Carter

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

Tony Visconti

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

Robin Gibb

I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.

Robin Gibb

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

Sara Sheridan

I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors.

Rio Ferdinand

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Barry Eisler

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

Alexander Pope

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Alexander Pope

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Alexander Pope

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure

Mireille Guiliano

In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Dodie Smith

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Dodie Smith

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Dinah Sheridan

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Edmund White

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

What's invaluable about Bernie is that he has gotten a number of us eggheads together and has translated what is scientific gobbledygook into English so that our neighbors and friends can understand it,

Joe Cocker

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first.

Thomas Hobbes

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Mike Butcher

We're looking for a guy that can step it up.

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

With my parents, it's always in Slovak. With my siblings, it's English unless there is something that needs to be said that shouldn't be said, then we'll throw in a different language.

Saffron Burrows

Ultimately, I just approached her as a young woman who's pretty screwed up, and I started reading Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf.

Joanne Harris

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.